Tech

Meta confirms it is testing a standalone app for Vibes, its short-form video feed of AI videos, after “strong early traction”, without sharing specific numbers (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-6 AI

Italian university La Sapienza goes offline after cyberattack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-6 Italy

Western Digital Plots a Path To 140 TB Hard Drives Using Vertical Lasers and 14-Platter Designs (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-2-6 Western Digital

The US FCC grants Starlink competitor Logos clearance to deploy up to 4,178 low Earth orbit broadband satellites by 2035; Logos raised a $50M Series A in 2025 (spacenews.com)
2026-2-6

DOJ files reveal how Jeffrey Epstein helped his Russian-born publicist Masha Bucher become a prominent VC who now boasts of early checks to 22 unicorns like xAI (www.forbes.com)
2026-2-6 Russia

US tech stocks fall sharply in intraday trading: the Nasdaq drops 1.8%+, S&P 500 1.5%+, GOOG 3%+, QCOM 7%+, and AMZN 3%+, amid a selloff in software stocks (www.ft.com)
2026-2-6

Snowboarder Maddie Mastro and other athletes are using a new AI tool powered by Google DeepMind's computer vision models to prepare for the 2026 Winter Olympics (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-6 Google AI

DOJ files reveal Epstein's deep Silicon Valley relationships and how key insiders offered access to buzzy startups like Coinbase, long after his 2008 conviction (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-6 Startup Coinbase

Amazon Plans To Use AI To Speed Up TV and Film Production (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-2-6 Amazon AI

Gemini exits the UK, EU and Australia and cuts 25% of staff, as the crypto exchange refocuses on the US due to foreign markets proving “hard to win” (www.theblock.co)
2026-2-6 Australia

10 Wild Facts About Taxidermy That You Probably Didn't Know (listverse.com)
2026-2-6

Duna, a European fintech making AI-powered identity and compliance tools for banks, raised a €30M Series A led by CapitalG, bringing its total funding to €40M+ (www.siliconrepublic.com)
2026-2-6 Europe Fintech AI

Spotify Plans To Sell Physical Books (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-6 Spotify

When cloud logs fall short, the network tells the truth (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-6

Ukraine says Starlink terminals used by Russia on the battlefield have been deactivated via a verification process developed alongside SpaceX (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-6 Russia Ukraine SpaceX

Romanian oil pipeline operator Conpet discloses cyberattack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-6 Romania

Fundamental, which has developed an LTM to analyze structured data, comes out of stealth with $255M in funding, including a $225M Series A, at a $1.2B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-6

Sources: Nvidia delays the release of its incremental gaming GPU upgrade, codenamed Kicker, marking the first year in three decades without a new GPU for gaming (www.theinformation.com)
2026-2-6 Nvidia

OpenAI launches Frontier, an AI agent management platform that provides shared context, onboarding, and permission boundaries, available to select customers (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-6 AI

FBI Couldn't Get Into Reporter's iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-2-6 iPhone FBI

AI interpretability startup Goodfire raised a $150M Series B at a $1.25B valuation, taking its total funding to $209M, and is working on retraining AI models (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-6 Startup AI

Data breach at fintech firm Betterment exposes 1.4 million accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-6 Fintech

Zendesk spam wave returns, floods users with 'Activate account' emails (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-6

Browse privately on unlimited devices for the next 3 years for $84 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-6

Newsletter platform Substack notifies users of data breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-6

London-based Lawhive, whose AI-based SaaS tools help smaller law firms automate legal tasks, raised a $60M Series B, after a $40M Series A in December 2024 (fortune.com)
2026-2-5 SaaS AI London

Kalshi Claims 'Extortion,' Then Recants in Feud Over User Losses (slashdot.org)
2026-2-5

AI accounting startup Accrual, incubated by General Catalyst, emerges from stealth and raised $75M; Accrual is part of General Catalyst's $1.5B Creation fund (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-5 Startup AI

Palo Alto Networks: an Asian cyber-espionage group broke into systems belonging to 70 critical infrastructure organizations and governments in 37+ countries (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-5

Spotify partners with Bookshop.org to let Premium users in the US and UK buy hardcover and paperback books via its app in spring; Bookshop.org fulfills orders (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-5 Spotify

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